Ticks are most prevalent vectors for the transmission of tick-borne diseases to animals (both wild and domesticated) as well humans. Due favourable subtropical conditions Pakistan, ticks abundant parasitize ruminants resulting in their morbidity mortality causing economic losses owners. In present study, a total 991 from bovines (n = 690 cattle; n 301 buffaloes) were collected during July Octob...

A Miocene succession exposed at the Cabo Ledo and Miradouro da Lua sections in Onshore Kwanza Basin, Angola, was examined for palynology. Palynomorphs of preliminary late age identified are presented herein. The upper part Quifangondo Formation is dated as middle Tortonian based on co-occurrence pollen grain Fenestrites spinosus dinoflagellate species Selenopemphix armageddonensis. palynomorph ...

BACKGROUND Boophilus annulatus is an obligate blood feeder tick that can cause great losses in animals due to anemia and its ability to injure its host skin directly. The aim of this study was identification of cattle humoral immune response to some tick proteins during experimental infestation. METHODS Immune sera against tick were collected from experimentally infested cattle with ticks. On...

Abstract Potential reinvasion of the United States by cattle fever ticks, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus (Say) and R. (B.) microplus (Canestrini), which are endemic in Mexico, threatens domestic livestock industry because these ticks vector causal agents (Babesia bovis (Babes) (Piroplasmida: Babesidae) B. bigemina Smith & Kilborne) bovine babesiosis. The Cattle Fever Tick Eradication P...